# $Id: config.in,v 1.113 2002/01/24 22:14:44 davem Exp $
# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
# see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
#
mainmenu "Linux/SPARC Kernel Configuration"
config MMU
bool
default y
config UID16
bool
default y
config HIGHMEM
bool
default y
config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
bool
default y
source "init/Kconfig"
menu "General setup"
config VT
bool
default y
---help---
If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with
display and keyboard devices. These are called "virtual" because you
can run several virtual terminals (also called virtual consoles) on
one physical terminal. This is rather useful, for example one
virtual terminal can collect system messages and warnings, another
one can be used for a text-mode user session, and a third could run
an X session, all in parallel. Switching between virtual terminals
is done with certain key combinations, usually Alt-<function key>.
The setterm command ("man setterm") can be used to change the
properties (such as colors or beeping) of a virtual terminal. The
man page console_codes(4) ("man console_codes") contains the special
character sequences that can be used to change those properties
directly. The fonts used on virtual terminals can be changed with
the setfont ("man setfont") command and the key bindings are defined
with the loadkeys ("man loadkeys") command.
You need at least one virtual terminal device in order to make use
of your keyboard and monitor. Therefore, only people configuring an
embedded system would want to say N here in order to save some
memory; the only way to log into such a system is then via a serial
or network connection.
If unsure, say Y, or else you won't be able to do much with your new
shiny Linux system :-)
config VT_CONSOLE
bool
default y
---help---
The system console is the device which receives all kernel messages
and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. If you
answer Y here, a virtual terminal (the device used to interact with
a physical terminal) can be used as system console. This is the most
common mode of operations, so you should say Y here unless you want
the kernel messages be output only to a serial port (in which case
you should say Y to "Console on serial port", below).
If you do say Y here, by default the currently visible virtual
terminal (/dev/tty0) will be used as system console. You can change
that with a kernel command line option such as "console=tty3" which
would use the third virtual terminal as system console. (Try "man
bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or
loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.)
If unsure, say Y.
config HW_CONSOLE
bool
default y
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support (does not work on sun4/sun4c)"
---help---
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y.
If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor
machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
will run faster if you say N here.
Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
"Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
See also the <file:Documentation/smp.tex>,
<file:Documentation/smp.txt>, <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>,
<file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
config NR_CPUS
int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-32)"
depends on SMP
default "32"
# Identify this as a Sparc32 build
config SPARC32
bool
default y
help
SPARC is a family of RISC microprocessors designed and marketed by
Sun Microsystems, incorporated. They are very widely found in Sun
workstations and clones. This port covers the original 32-bit SPARC;
it is old and stable and usually considered one of the "big three"
along with the Intel and Alpha ports. The UltraLinux project
maintains both the SPARC32 and SPARC64 ports; its web page is
available at <http://www.ultralinux.org/>.
# Global things across all Sun machines.
config ISA
bool
help
ISA is found on Espresso only and is not supported currently.
Say N
config EISA
bool
help
EISA is not supported.
Say N
config MCA
bool
help
MCA is not supported.
Say N
config PCMCIA
tristate
---help---
Say Y here if you want to attach PCMCIA- or PC-cards to your Linux
computer. These are credit-card size devices such as network cards,
modems or hard drives often used with laptops computers. There are
actually two varieties of these cards: the older 16 bit PCMCIA cards
and the newer 32 bit CardBus cards. If you want to use CardBus
cards, you need to say Y here and also to "CardBus support" below.
To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
for location). Please also read the PCMCIA-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
To compile this driver as modules, choose M here: the
modules will be called pcmcia_core and ds.
config SBUS
bool
default y
config SBUSCHAR
bool
default y
config SERIAL_CONSOLE
bool
default y
---help---
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
mode). This could be useful if some terminal or printer is connected
to that serial port.
Even if you say Y here, the currently visible virtual console
(/dev/tty0) will still be used as the system console by default, but
you can alter that using a kernel command line option such as
"console=ttyS1". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of
your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the
kernel at boot time.)
If you don't have a VGA card installed and you say Y here, the
kernel will automatically use the first serial line, /dev/ttyS0, as
system console.
If unsure, say N.
config SUN_AUXIO
bool
default y
config SUN_IO
bool
default y
config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
bool
default y
config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
bool
config SUN_PM
bool
default y
help
Enable power management and CPU standby features on supported
SPARC platforms.
config SUN4
bool "Support for SUN4 machines (disables SUN4[CDM] support)"
help
Say Y here if, and only if, your machine is a sun4. Note that
a kernel compiled with this option will run only on sun4.
(And the current version will probably work only on sun4/330.)
if !SUN4
config PCI
bool "Support for PCI and PS/2 keyboard/mouse"
help
CONFIG_PCI is needed for all JavaStation's (including MrCoffee),
CP-1200, JavaEngine-1, Corona, Red October, and Serengeti SGSC.
All of these platforms are extremely obscure, so say N if unsure.
source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"
endif
config SUN_OPENPROMFS
tristate "Openprom tree appears in /proc/openprom"
help
If you say Y, the OpenPROM device tree will be available as a
virtual file system, which you can mount to /proc/openprom by "mount
-t openpromfs none /proc/openprom".
To compile the /proc/openprom support as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called openpromfs. If unsure, choose M.
source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"
config SUNOS_EMUL
bool "SunOS binary emulation"
help
This allows you to run most SunOS binaries. If you want to do this,
say Y here and place appropriate files in /usr/gnemul/sunos. See
<http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html> for more information. If you
want to run SunOS binaries on an Ultra you must also say Y to
"Kernel support for 32-bit a.out binaries" above.
source "drivers/parport/Kconfig"
config PRINTER
tristate "Parallel printer support"
depends on PARPORT
---help---
If you intend to attach a printer to the parallel port of your Linux
box (as opposed to using a serial printer; if the connector at the
printer has 9 or 25 holes ["female"], then it's serial), say Y.
Also read the Printing-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
It is possible to share one parallel port among several devices
(e.g. printer and ZIP drive) and it is safe to compile the
corresponding drivers into the kernel. If you want to compile this
driver as a module however, choose M here and read
<file:Documentation/parport.txt>. The module will be called lp.
If you have several parallel ports, you can specify which ports to
use with the "lp" kernel command line option. (Try "man bootparam"
or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about
how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) The syntax of the
"lp" command line option can be found in <file:drivers/char/lp.c>.
If you have more than 8 printers, you need to increase the LP_NO
macro in lp.c and the PARPORT_MAX macro in parport.h.
endmenu
source "drivers/base/Kconfig"
source "drivers/video/Kconfig"
source "drivers/mtd/Kconfig"
source "drivers/serial/Kconfig"
if !SUN4
source "drivers/sbus/char/Kconfig"
endif
menu "Block devices"
config BLK_DEV_FD
bool "Normal floppy disk support"
---help---
If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
Thinkpad users, is contained in <file:Documentation/floppy.txt>.
That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
parameters of the driver at run time.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called floppy.
config BLK_DEV_LOOP
tristate "Loopback device support"
---help---
Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
driver.
The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in a
disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
(scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
on a remote file server. If you want to do this, you will first have
to acquire and install a kernel patch from
<ftp://ftp.kerneli.org/pub/kerneli/>, and then you need to
say Y to this option.
Note that alternative ways to use encrypted file systems are
provided by the cfs package, which can be gotten from
<ftp://ftp.kerneli.org/pub/kerneli/net-source/>, and the newer tcfs
package, available at <http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/>. You do not need
to say Y here if you want to use one of these. However, using cfs
requires saying Y to "NFS file system support" below while using
tcfs requires applying a kernel patch. An alternative steganography
solution is provided by StegFS, also available from
<ftp://ftp.kerneli.org/pub/kerneli/net-source/>.
To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility and a recent
version of the mount program, both contained in the util-linux
package. The location and current version number of util-linux is
contained in the file <file:Documentation/Changes>.
Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called loop.
Most users will answer N here.
config BLK_DEV_NBD
tristate "Network block device support"
depends on NET
---help---
Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
communicating using the loopback network device).
Read <file:Documentation/nbd.txt> for more information, especially
about where to find the server code, which runs in user space and
does not need special kernel support.
Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called nbd.
If unsure, say N.
source "drivers/md/Kconfig"
config BLK_DEV_RAM
tristate "RAM disk support"
---help---
Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
during the initial install of Linux.
Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now
obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called rd.
Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
thus say N here.
config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
int "Default RAM disk size"
depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
default "4096"
help
The default value is 4096. Only change this if you know what are
you doing. If you are using IBM S/390, then set this to 8192.
config BLK_DEV_INITRD
bool "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support"
depends on BLK_DEV_RAM=y
help
The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader
(loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot
procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the
"real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt>
for details.
endmenu
# Don't frighten a common SBus user
if PCI
source "drivers/ide/Kconfig"
endif
source "drivers/isdn/Kconfig"
source "drivers/scsi/Kconfig"
source "drivers/fc4/Kconfig"
source "net/Kconfig"
# This one must be before the filesystem configs. -DaveM
menu "Unix98 PTY support"
config UNIX98_PTYS
bool "Unix98 PTY support"
---help---
A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two
halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to
a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to
read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a
terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers
and xterms.
Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for
masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme
has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later,
however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a
pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo
terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo
terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was
traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example.
The entries in /dev/pts/ are created on the fly by a virtual
file system; therefore, if you say Y here you should say Y to
"/dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs" as well.
If you want to say Y here, you need to have the C library glibc 2.1
or later (equal to libc-6.1, check with "ls -l /lib/libc.so.*").
Read the instructions in <file:Documentation/Changes> pertaining to
pseudo terminals. It's safe to say N.
config UNIX98_PTY_COUNT
int "Maximum number of Unix98 PTYs in use (0-2048)"
depends on UNIX98_PTYS
default "256"
help
The maximum number of Unix98 PTYs that can be used at any one time.
The default is 256, and should be enough for desktop systems. Server
machines which support incoming telnet/rlogin/ssh connections and/or
serve several X terminals may want to increase this: every incoming
connection and every xterm uses up one PTY.
When not in use, each additional set of 256 PTYs occupy
approximately 8 KB of kernel memory on 32-bit architectures.
endmenu
source "drivers/input/Kconfig"
source "fs/Kconfig"
source "sound/Kconfig"
source "drivers/usb/Kconfig"
menu "Watchdog"
config SOFT_WATCHDOG
tristate "Software watchdog"
help
A software monitoring watchdog. This will fail to reboot your system
from some situations that the hardware watchdog will recover
from. Equally it's a lot cheaper to install.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called softdog.
endmenu
menu "Kernel hacking"
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug memory allocations"
config MAGIC_SYSRQ
bool "Magic SysRq key"
help
If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
unless you really know what this hack does.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
bool "Spinlock debugging"
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
help
If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)"
help
Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
endmenu
source "security/Kconfig"
source "crypto/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig"
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